by Saeta Estudi
Brand Roca has recently opened the new Roca Madrid Gallery, a stunning open space for cultural activities related to design. Its motto “Roca starts beating” is inspired in a project by a studio of architects, Saeta. It recreates a huge heart organ of more than 2 tons weight and more than 3 meters height. The idea? Show the heart behind Roca’s values.
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Mauro Fassino, a Italian artist from Turin, has just finished an art installation in Trento (Italy North East), called BIOmorphing, which is the result of the national competition “Science en plein art” organized by Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto (http://www.cittadellarte.it), Fondazione Galleria Civica (http://www.fondazionegalleriacivica.tn.it), PAV – Parco Arte Vivente (http://www.parcoartevivente.it) and Museo Tridentino di scienze naturali.
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In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Furniture Fair of Milan, the Salone Satellite chief curator Marva Griffin invited the architecture and design Research Lab Non-linear Solutions Unit at GSAPP Columbia University to develop a small pavilion project in response to the question in what direction is design heading.
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Form Us With Love shared with us their creative interpretation of woven vinyl flooring company Bolon’s 2011 collection, the ‘Artisan’.
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AquiliAlberg shared with us their project, the Grossmarkthalle Memorial Site, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Inspired by Zygmunt Bauman’s words, the project is in fact dematerialized by its focus in two directions and in three separate sections which, although separate, are intertwined and are engaged in a mutual dialogue.
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Ian McChesney shared with us his new sculpture for the Angel Building in London, the Piece with title ‘Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness’. Made from carbon fibre, The piece is 22 metres high and narrows to 100mm diameter at the midpoint, and 25mm at the tip. More text and images from the architects follow the break.
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Megan Geckler has transformed the lobby of the Wexner Center into a lively, vibrantly colorful place with Spread the ashes of the colors, one of her intricately woven environmental sculptures. Geckler uses only strips of translucent plastic tape in her installations, positioning them and weaving them together to create surface patterns and curvilinear forms. In this case, she has lined several walls and wrapped several of the center’s iconic columns in tape stripes and designed a loosely woven form that hovers like a canopy above the center’s lower lobby and café area. Geckler is based in Los Angeles, and her work has been exhibited at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Torrance Art Museum, Women & Their Work in Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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Press Release:
Part of the Artist Reactions Series
Main Exhibition Space, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester
6 November 2010 – 6 November 2011
FREE ENTRANCE
To mark this year’s Remembrance, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester is exhibiting THE CRUSADER, a unique and specially commissioned artwork by Gerry Judah.
